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 ==[[Tawi-Tawi News]]==
-'''Tawi-tawi folks get health aid '''
+'''Luxury liner on fire off Tawi-Tawi island, authorities say - Inquirer.net'''
-*Source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=792663&publicationSubCategoryId=200
+*Source: http://cebusandman.typepad.com/philippines_travel_news/2012/03/luxury-liner-on-fire-off-tawi-tawi-island-authorities-say-inquirernet.html
-*March 30, 2012 10:21 AM
+*12:42 pm | Saturday, March 31st, 2012
-:by  philstar.com
+:by  Frances Mangosing, Julie S. AlipalaInquirer Mindanao,
-TAWI-TAWI, Philippines – Unfazed by kidnapping threats, health workers expanded their medical-dental outreach missions to the remotest islands here after being convinced that their patients will provide a thick layer of protection from criminal gangs.
+ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—A Filipino-manned luxury ship carrying about 600 American and European passengers caught fire off Mapun Island in Tawi-Tawi Saturday, a report from the Philippine Navy said.
+Colonel Jose Cenabre, deputy naval commander for Western Mindanao, said the ship was sailing 45 miles northeast of Mapun Island when fire of still unknown origin broke out.
+Cenabre said the Philippine Air Force in Western Mindanao has dispatched a plane to the area and a fishing vessel, which was near the ship’s location was also asked to assist in the evacuation of the passengers and the ship’s 121 crew, mostly Filipinos.
+“Rescue is underway,” he said.
+In a separate report, the Philippine Coast Giard said a crew member was injured.
+He was identified as Juan Carlos Rivera Escobar.
+However, Vice Admiral Edmund Tan of the PCG said they have yet to confirm if Escobar is Filipino.
+About 120 of the ship crew were Filipinos.
+In a travel alert by the Azamara Club Cruises posted in its website (March 30 12noon ET), the fire started on the engine room March 30 8:19p.m. ship time. However, no injuries of guests were reported.
+The mood onboard was “calm.”
+Also, “in an abundance of caution, the Captain deemed it necessary to muster all guests at their assembly stations. The ship is currently running on emergency power until full power can be restored to the engine room,” the statement said.
+As of March 30 6 p.m. EST, Azamara Quest is still located 200 miles off the coast of Balikpapan (Borneo), Indonesia, in calm seas, it added.
+Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Omar Tonsay said the Philippine Navy sent its assets, including Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas (BRP) Emilio Liwanag, Leogivildo Gantioque, Juan Magluyan, and one multi-purpose assault craft for assistance operations.
+The Azamara Quest is currently on a 17-night sailing that departed Hong Kong, China, on Monday, March 26, with port calls to Manila, Philippines; Balikpapan (Borneo), Palapo (Sulawesi), Benoa Bali, Semarang and Komodo, Indonesia and will end in Singapore on Thursday.
-The regional office of the Department of Health in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the office of Tawi-Tawi Gov. Sadikul Sahali indicated that more than 2,000 villagers in islands near the Philippine-Malaysian border have been treated of various ailments.
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-The latest of the medical missions were held from March 15 to 18 in the island municipalities Sapa-Sapa and Languyan, dozens of miles off the provincial capital in Bongao.
+Tags: Cruise Ship , Marine Accident , maritime accident , Tawi-Tawi
-Saberani Saparani, a Samah fisherman, who hails from a coastal village in Sapa-Sapa, said he has long resigned to the fate of not seeing medical workers in their community, until health workers arrived two weeks ago.
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-ARMM health secretary Kadil Sinolinding said their intensified operations would not materialize if not for the support of the provincial governor, Tawi-Tawi Vice Gov. Ruby Sahali, and the officer-in-charge of the autonomous region, Mujiv Hataman.
-Sinolinding said lack of capability, in terms of mobility and other technical requirements, is the main cause of the operational constraint that has been hampering the delivery of health services to very far areas in the island municipalities.
-The ARMM, which exists by virtue of its constitutionally-enshrined charter, the R.A. 9054, covers Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, both in Central Mindanao, the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and the cities of Marawi and Lamitan.
-The morale of the rank and file personnel of DOH-ARMM just started to bounce back, dampened by the recent abductions in nearby Sulu province by Abu Sayyaf bandits.
-In Tawi-Tawi, health workers have a peculiar sense of security, having that feeling of “protection” from the communities they serve and from the mayors and the provincial governor.
-Sahali said they have fund allocations for health and social welfare services for all sectors in the province.
-Sinolinding said among their thrusts in the province are the joint safe motherhood and reproductive health; maternal and child health; nutrition and immunization programs of the DOH-ARMM and the central office of the health department.
-Majority of Muslim clerics here now supported the DOH’s reproductive health programs in the context of “birth spacing” through natural methods of contraception.
-“Birth spacing, to ensure the socio-economic welfare of the entire family, is not a taboo in Islam,” said Imam Esmael Ebrahim of the Ulama Conference of the Philippines, who is a consultant for religious concerns of the DOH-ARMM.
-The “Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan” program of the national office of DOH, meant to promote extensive health education to impoverished families in the countryside, has also been fully integrated in the service framework of the municipal and barangay health service facets scattered in the province.
-“Ignorance, lack of even just the most basic knowledge on human health is just like a deadly plague than can kill people,” said Sinolinding.
-Sinolinding first served as regional health secretary in 2010, under then acting ARMM Gov. Ansaruddin Adiong, and was, subsequently, retained by Hataman, who is to serve as regional chief executive on caretaker basis until 2013.
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